/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Or /cg/, whatever. I've always hated coffee without shitloads of sweetener, which made it basically white, it was always too bitter for my tastes, and I've only recently figured out why.

My mother always had coffee in a french press for about 10-30 minutes. I've since then learned that water overextracts the coffee after about 3-5 minutes, even less or more depending on grind size and grind evenness, resulting in a fucked up coffee. It also depends on a bunch of other stuff, like water temp, bean freshness, and grind size/grind freshness. All of which seems to be things she likely fucked up in some way.

Please teach me how to make coffee that doesn't taste like monkey piss?

Pic related is the brand and container I've got.